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Space Jobs in the Colorado Springs Area

288 open roles at 23 space companies name a site in the Colorado Springs area, most of them in Colorado Springs and Schriever AFB; typical pay runs $113k–$224k/yr. Listed straight from each employer's careers site, checked every hour.

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Space companies hiring in the Colorado Springs area

EmployerOpen roles hereMedian posted pay
Northrop Grumman66$130k/yr
KBR43$126k/yr
Lockheed Martin40$140k/yr
The Aerospace Corporation25not stated
L3Harris24$132k/yr
Booz Allen Hamilton17$142k/yr
Amentum11too few figures
Boeing10$149k/yr
US Space Force9$71.7k/yr
Anduril8$180k/yr
CACI7$127k/yr
Parsons7$154k/yr
MITRE4$165k/yr
Trinzic4too few figures
True Anomaly3$200k/yr
Vantor3$109k/yr
Johns Hopkins APL1too few figures
Leidos1too few figures
Millennium Space Systems1too few figures
Peraton1too few figures
RTX1too few figures
SEAKR Engineering1too few figures
Slingshot Aerospace1too few figures

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Updated 31 Oct 2026, 18:02 UTC

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What people ask about space work in the Colorado Springs area

Which space companies are hiring in the Colorado Springs area?

Today, Northrop Grumman (66 roles), KBR (43 roles), Lockheed Martin (40 roles), The Aerospace Corporation (25 roles), L3Harris (24 roles), Booz Allen Hamilton (17 roles), and 17 more. The table above lists every employer with a role open in the Colorado Springs area.

Where in the Colorado Springs area are the space jobs?

Most are in Colorado Springs (249), Schriever AFB (28), Peterson AFB (9), Schriever SFB (2), as the postings name their sites. A role that names several sites counts at each.

How much do space jobs in the Colorado Springs area pay?

The roles here that state pay post a median $130k/yr, with typical pay from $113k–$224k/yr; 93.2% of Colorado's postings state their pay at all, which our research on where space jobs are compares state by state. Colorado's law has required every employer with at least one employee in Colorado to state a pay range in job postings since 1 Jan 2021 (each state's law beside its postings). For reference, the 990 aerospace engineers working in the Colorado Springs area, in any industry, earn a median $152k/yr (BLS, May 2025).

Do space jobs in the Colorado Springs area require US citizenship?

Of the 2,087 space postings in Colorado whose text we read, 58% are limited to US citizens or US persons and 63.5% name a security clearance, by our research on who can apply, which compares every state. Each posting states its own rule, often citing export control under ITAR or the EAR.

How is this list made?

We read each employer's own job board every hour. A role is listed here when it is a US role and its own location line names a place in the Colorado Springs area (the Colorado Springs, CO metropolitan statistical area as the Census Bureau draws it: El Paso and Teller counties), by the same reading as our research on where space jobs are; remote roles that name no state are on the remote jobs page.